Has collaborated with such composers as Tom Waits, J.D. Souther, Chris Hillman, Bobby Whitlock, Jim Lauderdale and Beth Nielsen Chapman Jack Tempchin, Inducted 2019

Honored with SHOF’s highest accolade, the Johnny Mercer Award, in 2005, and National Medal of the Arts in 2002 Smokey Robinson, Inducted 1990

Classic hits like “Jungle Boogie,” “Hollywood Swinging,” “Celebration,” “Get Down on It” and “Joanna" George Brown, Inducted 2018

Grammy for his "Neither One of Us" for Gladys Knight and the Pips Jim Weatherly, Inducted 2014